Fast after him did drive. {125}
Stand abacke, stand abacke, sayd Robìn ;
Why draw you mee so neere ?
It was never the use in our countryè,
Ones shrift another shold heere.
But Robin pulled forth an Irish knife,
And losed John hand and foote,
And gave him sir Guyes bow into his hand,
And bade it be his boote.
Then John he took Guyes bow in his hand,